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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. As the U.S.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. and globally by 2040. LinkedIn | Personal website.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

AGreenLiving

.” Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime. As the U.S.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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In an era of climate change, Alaska’s predators fall prey to politics

Grist

Pilots flew through alpine valleys, where ribs of electric green growth emerged from a blanket of snow. Board members, who did not respond to requests for comment, tend to reflect the politics of the administration in office; currently, under Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy, they are sport hunters, trappers, and guides.

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

Business Green

Across most metrics - be it habitat protection, species abundance, or forestry protection and peatland restoration - RER appears to be delivering impressive environmental gains, and all while gleaning potentially critical scientific knowledge for the global fight against climate change and biodiversity loss.